Facebook Unveils its 2020 Africa Year in Review 17th Dec 2020 | Source: APO
The campaign aims to highlight the successes, strength and resilience of its users, whilst reinforcing Facebook’s ongoing commitment to the region
Facebook (Facebook.com) today released its “2020 Year in Review: Highlights” an infographic showcasing some of its key investments and work across Africa in 2020. Supported by an animated video celebrating and showcasing a few people across the continent rising against the challenges of this unexpected year, the campaign aims to highlight the successes, strength and resilience of its users, whilst reinforcing Facebook’s ongoing commitment to the region.
December 17, 2020 - 12:45 PM
NEW YORK - The American Journalism Project said Thursday that it was awarding $2 million in grants to three non-profit newsrooms, including one based in New York City that targets the immigrant community.
The site Documented, founded in 2018 by Mazin Sidahmed and Max Siegelbaum, will use the grant to expand newsgathering for Spanish-speaking immigrants. Documented has been praised for innovations in reaching readers, including through Semanal, a Spanish-language newsletter delivered through WhatsApp.
The venture philanthropy fund, begun by the founders of Texas Tribune and Chalkbeat, is also giving grants to the Montana Free Press in Helena, Montana, and the Beacon in Kansas City, Missouri.
“In 2021, we have a chance to learn from a crisis we were largely unprepared to cover.”
The biggest story of 2020 probably the biggest story of our lifetimes was a global one, and covering it effectively required global collaboration among journalists and news organizations.
Media in the United States needed to have eyes and ears in China, Italy, Iran, and other hot spots in order to know what was coming. They needed reporting from all over from Taiwan and Senegal to Brazil and the U.K. to know which strategies were succeeding and which ones were failing. And as the race for a vaccine heated up, they needed to tell their audiences what was happening in Asia and Europe, and how progress there would impact the health of Americans.